fix(coding-agent): match find path globs with fd 10.5.1 on Windows

fd 10.5.1 fixes --full-path globs on Windows (sharkdp/fd#2067). The old
[/\] separator rewrite breaks every path glob there, so it now applies
only to fd before 10.5.1. Backslashes in Windows patterns are normalized
to '/'.

fixes #9262

packages/coding-agent/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 - Fixed the grep tool reading every matched file into memory when `context` was set, which ran out of memory on large files; context now comes from ripgrep, which also fixes UTF-16 files and lone CRs in matched lines, and the match limit notice no longer appears when exactly `limit` matches exist ([#9276](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/9276), [#11423](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/11423))
 - Fixed the find tool reporting the result limit when exactly `limit` files match, and `limit: 0` in find and ls returning every result or an empty listing; limits below 1 now mean 1 ([#7121](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/7121))
 - Fixed grep match lines, codemode output, compaction summaries of tool results, and MCP error and server summaries cutting an emoji or other non-BMP character in half when truncating, which left an invalid lone surrogate in the text ([#7121](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/7121))
+- Fixed the find tool on Windows returning no results for every path pattern, such as `src/**/*.ts`, with fd 10.5.1, which pi downloads now. The workaround for older fd is now used only with fd before 10.5.1. With fd 10.5.1, `src/**/*.ts` also finds files directly in `src/`, `src/*.ts` no longer finds files in subdirectories, and patterns with Windows separators such as `src\**\*.ts` work ([#9262](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/9262))
 
 
 ## [1.5.0] - 2026-11-02

packages/coding-agent/src/core/tools/find.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { createInterface } from "node:readline";
-import { spawn } from "child_process";
+import { execFile, spawn } from "child_process";
 import path from "path";
 import { type Static, Type } from "typebox";
 import { ensureTool } from "../../utils/tools-manager.ts";
@@ -22,6 +22,28 @@ export function relativizeFindResultPath(
 	return hadTrailingSeparator && !posixPath.endsWith("/") ? `${posixPath}/` : posixPath;
 }
 
+// Before 10.5.1, fd on Windows matched --full-path globs against paths with native `\` separators, so a
+// glob separator `/` never matched (sharkdp/fd#2067). Version per fd binary path, probed once.
+const legacyWindowsFullPathGlobByFdPath = new Map<string, Promise<boolean>>();
+
+/** Whether this fd binary predates the Windows --full-path glob fix (sharkdp/fd#2067, fd 10.5.1). */
+export function usesLegacyWindowsFullPathGlob(fdPath: string): Promise<boolean> {
+	let result = legacyWindowsFullPathGlobByFdPath.get(fdPath);
+	if (!result) {
+		result = new Promise((resolve) => {
+			execFile(fdPath, ["--version"], { timeout: 5000 }, (_error, stdout) => {
+				const match = /(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)/.exec(stdout);
+				// Unknown versions are treated as fixed: pi downloads the latest fd release.
+				if (!match) return resolve(false);
+				const [major, minor, patch] = match.slice(1).map(Number);
+				resolve(major !== 10 ? major < 10 : minor !== 5 ? minor < 5 : patch < 1);
+			});
+		});
+		legacyWindowsFullPathGlobByFdPath.set(fdPath, result);
+	}
+	return result;
+}
+
 const findSchema = Type.Object({
 	pattern: Type.String({
 		description: "Glob pattern to match files, e.g. '*.ts', '**/*.json', or 'src/**/*.spec.ts'",
@@ -173,6 +195,8 @@ export function createFindToolDefinition(
 
 						// Default implementation uses fd.
 						const fdPath = await ensureTool("fd");
+						const legacyWindowsGlob =
+							process.platform === "win32" && !!fdPath && (await usesLegacyWindowsFullPathGlob(fdPath));
 						if (signal?.aborted) {
 							settle(() => reject(new Error("Operation aborted")));
 							return;
@@ -205,15 +229,24 @@ export function createFindToolDefinition(
 						// fd --glob matches against the basename unless --full-path is set; in --full-path
 						// mode it matches against the absolute candidate path, so a path-containing
 						// pattern like 'src/**/*.spec.ts' needs a leading '**/' to match anything.
-						let effectivePattern = pattern;
+						// On Windows `\` is a path separator (fd does not treat it as a glob escape there), so
-						if (pattern.includes("/")) {
+						// native patterns like 'src\**\*.ts' are normalized to '/' (#9262). On POSIX `\` stays an
+						// escape character.
+						let effectivePattern = process.platform === "win32" ? pattern.replaceAll("\\", "/") : pattern;
+						if (effectivePattern.includes("/")) {
 							args.push("--full-path");
-							if (!pattern.startsWith("/") && !pattern.startsWith("**/") && pattern !== "**") {
+							if (
-								effectivePattern = `**/${pattern}`;
+								!effectivePattern.startsWith("/") &&
+								!effectivePattern.startsWith("**/") &&
+								effectivePattern !== "**"
+							) {
+								effectivePattern = `**/${effectivePattern}`;
 							}
-							// fd matches full paths using native separators on Windows.
+							// Best-effort workaround for old fd on Windows. It must not be applied to fixed fd:
-							if (process.platform === "win32")
+							// '**[/\\]' is no longer a recursive wildcard there, so every path glob matches nothing.
+							if (legacyWindowsGlob) {
 								effectivePattern = effectivePattern.replaceAll("/", String.raw`[/\\]`);
+							}
 						}
 						args.push("--", effectivePattern, searchPath);
 

packages/coding-agent/test/suite/regressions/3302-find-path-glob.test.ts

@@ -2,7 +2,13 @@ import { mkdirSync, mkdtempSync, rmSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
 import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
 import { join } from "node:path";
 import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
-import { createFindToolDefinition } from "../../../src/core/tools/find.ts";
+import { createFindToolDefinition, usesLegacyWindowsFullPathGlob } from "../../../src/core/tools/find.ts";
+import { getToolPath } from "../../../src/utils/tools-manager.ts";
+
+// fd before 10.5.1 on Windows only gets a best-effort workaround (sharkdp/fd#2067): it misses files
+// directly under the prefix and lets '*' cross directories, so exact-result cases skip there.
+const fdPath = getToolPath("fd");
+const exactPathGlobs = !(process.platform === "win32" && fdPath && (await usesLegacyWindowsFullPathGlob(fdPath)));
 
 /**
  * Regression test for https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/3302
@@ -26,6 +32,7 @@ describe("issue #3302 find returns no results for path-based glob patterns", ()
 		writeFileSync(join(tempRoot, "some", "parent", "child", "file.ext"), "");
 		writeFileSync(join(tempRoot, "some", "parent", "child", "test.spec.ts"), "");
 		writeFileSync(join(tempRoot, "src", "foo", "bar", "example.spec.ts"), "");
+		writeFileSync(join(tempRoot, "src", "direct.spec.ts"), "");
 	});
 
 	afterEach(() => {
@@ -49,7 +56,11 @@ describe("issue #3302 find returns no results for path-based glob patterns", ()
 
 	it("basename pattern still matches (regression-safe)", async () => {
 		const files = await runFind("*.spec.ts");
-		expect(files.sort()).toEqual(["some/parent/child/test.spec.ts", "src/foo/bar/example.spec.ts"]);
+		expect(files.sort()).toEqual([
+			"some/parent/child/test.spec.ts",
+			"src/direct.spec.ts",
+			"src/foo/bar/example.spec.ts",
+		]);
 	});
 
 	it("directory-prefixed pattern with ** tail matches subtree", async () => {
@@ -65,8 +76,40 @@ describe("issue #3302 find returns no results for path-based glob patterns", ()
 		expect(files.sort()).toContain("some/parent/child/test.spec.ts");
 	});
 
-	it("src/**/*.spec.ts matches nested spec file", async () => {
+	it.runIf(exactPathGlobs)("src/**/*.spec.ts matches direct and nested spec files", async () => {
 		const files = await runFind("src/**/*.spec.ts");
-		expect(files).toEqual(["src/foo/bar/example.spec.ts"]);
+		expect(files.sort()).toEqual(["src/direct.spec.ts", "src/foo/bar/example.spec.ts"]);
+	});
+
+	it.runIf(exactPathGlobs)("src/*.spec.ts does not cross directories", async () => {
+		const files = await runFind("src/*.spec.ts");
+		expect(files).toEqual(["src/direct.spec.ts"]);
+	});
+
+	// https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/9262: on Windows, `\` is a path separator.
+	// On POSIX it is a glob escape character, so these cases are Windows-only.
+	it.runIf(process.platform === "win32" && exactPathGlobs)(
+		"Windows backslash patterns match like forward-slash patterns",
+		async () => {
+			expect((await runFind(String.raw`src\**\*.spec.ts`)).sort()).toEqual([
+				"src/direct.spec.ts",
+				"src/foo/bar/example.spec.ts",
+			]);
+			expect(await runFind(String.raw`src\*.spec.ts`)).toEqual(["src/direct.spec.ts"]);
+			expect((await runFind(String.raw`**\parent\child\*`)).sort()).toEqual([
+				"some/parent/child/file.ext",
+				"some/parent/child/test.spec.ts",
+			]);
+			expect((await runFind(String.raw`src\**/*.spec.ts`)).sort()).toEqual([
+				"src/direct.spec.ts",
+				"src/foo/bar/example.spec.ts",
+			]);
+		},
+	);
+
+	it.runIf(process.platform !== "win32")("POSIX backslash still escapes glob characters", async () => {
+		writeFileSync(join(tempRoot, "src", "*.ts"), "");
+		writeFileSync(join(tempRoot, "src", "other.ts"), "");
+		expect(await runFind(String.raw`src/\*.ts`)).toEqual(["src/*.ts"]);
 	});
 });